Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B19/00—Arrangements or adaptations of ports, doors, windows, port-holes, or other openings or covers
  • B63B19/12—Hatches; Hatchways
  • B63B19/14—Hatch covers
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B17/00—Vessels parts, details, or accessories, not otherwise provided for
  • B63B17/0027—Tanks for fuel or the like ; Accessories therefor, e.g. tank filler caps
  • B63B17/0036—Arrangements for minimizing pollution by accidents
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
  • B63B27/24—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of pipe-lines
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B57/00—Tank or cargo hold cleaning specially adapted for vessels
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
  • B63C7/00—Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater objects
  • B63C7/006—Emptying the contents of sunken, stranded, or disabled vessels, e.g. by engaging the vessel; Underwater collecting of buoyant contents, such as liquid, particulate or gaseous contents, escaping from sunken vessels, e.g. using funnels, or tents for recovery of escaping hydrocarbons
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
  • B63C7/00—Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater objects
  • B63C7/16—Apparatus engaging vessels or objects
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
  • Y10T137/0318—Processes
  • Y10T137/0402—Cleaning, repairing, or assembling
  • Y10T137/0441—Repairing, securing, replacing, or servicing pipe joint, valve, or tank
  • Y10T137/048—With content loading or unloading [e.g., dispensing, discharge assistant, etc.]
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
  • Y10T137/9029—With coupling
  • Y10T137/9138—Flexible

Definitions

• the present patent application relates to a method for evacuating the liquid from a vessel of a vessel which does not have pumping means, or which has at least partially damaged pumping means, and / or which requires pumping means. additional.
• “Pump” means a pump which, immersed in the fluid to be displaced, “pushes” it into the discharge pipe; by suction pump, a pump placed above the fluid to be moved and which "sucks” it by a phenomenon of volume depressurization between the pump and the fluid.
• the present invention is thus particularly intended to provide a method of evacuating the liquid from a tank of a partially emerged ship, which does not have these disadvantages.
• This object of the invention is achieved with a method of evacuating the liquid from a tank of a partially emerged vessel which does not have pumping means, or having pumping means at least partially damaged, and / or requiring additional pumping means, this tank comprising at least one technical access, comprising the steps of:
• a pump selected from the group comprising a booster pump that is arranged in the lower part of said pipe, and a suction pump that is available in the part of said pipe.
• said pump is devoid of discharge or suction hose, and is adapted to be in sealing relation with said rigid pipe, so that said liquid can be forced back or sucked through said rigid pipe: thanks to this Sealing relationship can be played to this rigid pipe role of liquid evacuation pipe which is inside the tank, by discharge or suction depending on the type of pump used; In this way, all of the above mentioned congestions of space and installation time with respect to the prior art are exposed;
• said rigid pipe when said rigid pipe has a diameter strictly smaller than that of said technical access, said rigid pipe is inclined so as to pump said fluid at different points of the interior of the tank;
• said rigid pipe and said pump, with its associated hose, if appropriate, are introduced into at least one of these technical accesses;
• said rigid pipe and said pump are introduced, with its associated hose, if any, into these technical ports so as to pump the liquid in the corners of the tank ;
• the present invention also relates to a technical access particularly adapted to the implementation of the method according to the invention, remarkable in that it is steerable: this orientable character makes it possible to direct the rigid pipe in which the pump is placed, in areas of the tank where it is desired to perform the pumping.
• This technical access comprises a bellows secured to a plate adapted to be fixed on said vessel;
• said platen comprises annular grooves adapted to cooperate with screws and nuts integral with an annular plate integral with said vessel: this particular arrangement makes it possible, on the one hand, for different angular orientations of the technical access, and on the other hand its mounting. / easy disassembly of the tank to avoid corrosion problems including the ball bearing outside the intervention periods.
• FIG. 1 illustrates in perspective a vessel tank provided with a central technical access
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view, on a larger scale, of this technical access
• FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of this technical access
• FIG. 4 schematically illustrates the process according to the invention applied to the tank of FIG. 1
• FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a vessel vessel equipped with multi-head technical access, each of the heads being directed towards the corners of the tank, and
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a vessel vessel equipped with a plurality of technical accesses each disposed in the upper corners of the vessel.
• FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a vessel equipped with technical access and provided with a rigid pipe inclined so as to pump liquid at a specific point inside the vessel;
• FIG. 8 is a detail view, in perspective, of a bellows technical access.
• FIGS. 9 and 10 are detailed views, in perspective, of access to rotary techniques.
• FIG. 1 on which can be seen a vessel 1 vessel, of substantially parallelepiped shape, provided on its sky, that is to say on its upper wall, a technical access 3.
• This technical access 3 is preferably placed centrally on the sky of the tank 1, without this being for all that limiting.
• the tank 1 is a tank for transporting liquids, such as hydrocarbons, fitted to a vessel comprising a plurality of such tanks.
• the problem to which the present invention relates is to recover the liquid located inside the tank when the vessel does not have pumping means, or has pumping means partially or totally damaged, and / or requires additional pumping means (for example due to a degradation of the flow rate of the original pumping means as a result of their damage, or because of a lack of origin of the flow of the pumping means), and remains at least partially emerged. It is assumed, therefore, that technical access 3 remains above the water level, so that it is accessible from the outside to carry out the recovery operations of the in situ of the tank 1, according to the method which will be described in the following.
• the technical access 3 comprises a pipe section 5 of short length, surmounted by a flange 7 on which is fixed a tap 9 by a plurality of screws and screws. nuts 1 1.
• the pipe section 5 can be made of preferably stainless steel and welded to the sky of the tank 1, and the tape 9 can be made of steel or aluminum, by way of non-limiting example (plastics such as PVC could also be suitable).
• the vessel equipped with the vessel 1 does not have pumping means, or has partially or totally damaged pumping means, it is possible to access from outside, that is to say above the level of the surface of the water, at the access technique 3, and unscrewing the tape 9 of the pipe section 5.
• This pipe section 5 is then inserted into a rigid pipe
• the rigid pipe 13 may consist of a single tube of predefined length or an assembly of tubes of shorter lengths facilitating its handling and offering more flexibility over the length of the final tube.
• This rigid pipe 1 preferably of cylindrical shape, may be formed of plastic such as PVC, or in a light metal alloy.
• the diameter of this narrow duct 1 3 is strictly less than that of the duct section 5 of the technical access 3, so as to leave a clearance.
• a pressure pump 1 5 for example by means of a winched cable 17 which this pump is suspended; If this pump 1 5 is adapted to be in sealing relation with the inner wall of the rigid pipe 13 (see below), the contents of the tank can be discharged directly through this rigid pipe; if the pump 1 5 comprises a delivery hose (in which case it is not necessary that it be in sealing relation with the inner wall of the rigid pipe 1 3), the liquid to be discharged is discharged by this flexible ;
• the sealing relationship of the pump 15 with the rigid pipe 13 or with the technical access 3 can be achieved for example by a flange 19 placed at the periphery of this pump and bearing against the inner wall of this rigid pipe or this technical access. Due to this sealing relationship, neither the outside air nor the liquid 22 located inside the tank 1 can cross the barrier of this sealing device.
• the pump 1 5 is also connected by one or more cables or pipes 21 to an electrical or hydraulic power system, necessary for the operation of this pump.
• the cables or pipes 21 have a small diameter, unlike any possible flexibl es of discharge or suction of the liquid 22 from the inside of the tank 1 towards the outside thereof, thanks to the pump 15.
• the pump 15 can be started by sending in the cable 21 the fluid (electricity or hydraulic fluid) necessary for the operation of this pump.
• This pump and powered energy can realize its suction function, or discharge to the outside, inside the rigid pipe 13 or the hose when there is one.
• the rigid pipe 13 allows to direct the pump 15 and its associated discharge or suction hose when there is one, exactly where we want to the inside of the tank 1, and to prevent any blockage of this pump and / or of this hose in equipment likely to be inside this tank 1 such as other channels, ladders, stairs, ribs, reinforcements, other pumps etc.
• this pump 1 5 is connected to the outside only by a flexible suspension cable 1 7 and by at least a simple power supply line in electricity or in hydraulic fluid 21, allows the very rapid installation of this pump, unlike a conventional pump connected to the outside by a real discharge or suction hose, much more bulky and rigid.
• the technical access 3 comprises several heads 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d each inclined towards the corners of the tank, as can be seen FIG. 5 shows the dotted lines visible in this FIG. 5, in which case the preferred directions that the rigid pipe 13 with its pump 15 can occupy.
• a plurality of technical accesses 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, arranged in each of the upper corners of the vessel 1, can be provided, in this case making it possible to position the rigid pipe 13 according to the direction indicated by the dotted lines visible in this figure.
• this orientable character makes it possible to direct the rigid pipe in which one place the pump in the areas of the tank where it is desired to carry out the pumping.
• a first way of making such a steerable technical access 3 may be to provide that the pipe section 5 is connected to the tank 1 by a bellows 24 secured to a plate 26 adapted to be fixed on said vessel 1; such a bellows, for sealing the assembly, may for example be formed of rubber.
• a second way to achieve such a steerable technical access 3 may be to provide that the pipe section 5 of this technical access is mounted on a plate 26 adapted to be rotatably mounted a tray annular 28 secured to said vessel 1.
• the plate 26 is adapted to be pivotally mounted by a ball bearing on the annular plate 28.
• the plate 26 has annular grooves 30 able to cooperate with screws and nuts 32 integral with said annular plate 28.

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